Maas-Wheeler photographs, 1920-1960s.

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Maas-Wheeler photographs, 1920-1960s.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/605284188

The Maas-Wheeler Photographs include images of airplanes, plane wrecks, airfields, railroad trains, automobiles, log cabins, bridges, Alaskan animals and landscapes, fish traps in Valdez, caches, totems in Ketchikan, and mining activities and equipment throughout Alaska and Yukon Territory. These photographs depict Alaskans in their daily lives. In addition, there are many well-identified photographs of Pete Maas, Clarita Wheeler, and their friends and families in Valdez, including pictures of William A. Egan, the State of Alaska's first governor. The geographical range of the photographs covers most of Alaska, but the majority of the images are from the Valdez and Copper River regions.

3.05 cu. ft.

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7780024

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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Wheeler, Clarita.

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Maas, Peter E.

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Pete Maas came to Alaska in the 1930s from the Netherlands and was known as an amateur archaeologist and a miner. Clarita (Clara) Wheeler owned the Valdez Drugstore in Valdez, Alaska, in the 1930s. From the description of Maas-Wheeler photographs, 1920-1960s. (University of Alaska, Fairbanks). WorldCat record id: 605284188 ...

United States. Alaska Road Commission

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This collection records the construction of roads, trails and bridges in Alaska from approximately 1909-1959. The Alaska Road Commission was established in 1905 as a board of the U.S. War Department where it remained until 1932. Many of Alaska's oldest highways are named for officers of the early Road Commission: Valdez-Chitina-Fairbanks military road was renamed the Richardson Highway for Brig. Gen. Wilds P. Richardson, the Steese Highway for Col. James G. Steese, the Elliot Highway for Maj. Ma...